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Ojibwa(y Numerous varr.|əʊˈdʒɪbweɪ|
[Ojibwa, based on a root meaning ‘puckered’ (see quot. 1824); Chippewa is a corrupted form of Ojibwa(y.]
a. A member of an Algonquian people of North American Indians, inhabiting the lands around Lake Superior and, in more recent times, certain adjacent areas from Saskatchewan to Lake Ontario.
b. An Algonquian language spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
‘Chippewa and Ojibwa(y are the same word. Of these the former was the common English form until well into the nineteenth century... Chippewa is now the common spelling in the U.S. and Ojibwa(y in Canada. Hence these forms tend to be used for somewhat different local groups, but the usage is not consistent. Ethnologists, and especially linguists, tend to use Ojibwa(y for all the groups in question.’ (Dr. I. Goddard)
1700in Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1854) IV. 749 Upon the sides of [Lake Huron]..live several Nations, vizt. the Christinos, the Ochipoy [etc.]. 1783in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1809) X. 123 Chactaws 600... Upichweys 3000. 1824W. H. Keating Narr. Expedition St. Peter's River II. 151 The term Chippewa, which is generally applied to this nation, is derived from that of O'chepe'wag, which..signifies plaited shoes, from the fashion among those Indians of puckering their moccassins. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West II. 15 The Chippewa, or Ojibboai..is generally considered the court language of our North-western tribes. 1853Dickens Noble Savage in Househ. Words 11 June 337/1 Mr. Catlin..with his Ojibbeway Indians. 1855Longfellow Hiawatha l. 13 From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways. 1872W. F. Butler Great Lone Land viii. 110 Little ones..jabbered the smallest amount of English or French, and a great deal of Ojibbeway, or Cree, or Assineboine. 1903Chesterton R. Browning i. 7 If his great-aunt had been a Red Indian, should we not have said that only in the Ojibways and the Blackfeet do we find the Browning fantasticality combined with the Browning stoicism? 1916[see Montagnais n. and a.]. 1921E. Sapir Language 53 In many, as in Italian or Swedish or Ojibwa, long consonants are recognized as distinct from short ones. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory ix. 133 Foremost among his earlier students was the part-Fox William Jones, who transcribed a superb series of Fox and Ojibwa texts. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 6/3 A. E. Bigwin, an Ojibway who is a Toronto school principal, states [etc.]. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. vii. 117 The biggest languages in this [sc. the Algonquian] family are Chippewa (USA) or Ojibwa (Canada) with 35,000 speakers, [etc.]. 1974Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 2 Nov. 23/2 Armed Ojibwa militants had occupied a 14-acre park..in the resort town of Kenora, Ontario. |